Newspaper Extinction for every Country

Back in August Ross Dawson predicted that newspapers in their current form will be irrelevant in Australia in 2022. That received significant international attention including from The Australian, The Guardian, Editor & Publisher (which called him the ‘Wizard of Aussie’) and many others.

Part of the point he wanted to make was that this date is different for every country. As such he has created a Newspaper Extinction Timeline that maps out the wide diversity in how quickly we can expect newspapers to remain significant around the world. First out is USA in 2017, followed by UK and Iceland in 2019 and Canada and Norway in 2020. In many countries newspapers will survive the year 2040.